I am not just a celebrity, I’m a human-rights advocate for the last 20 years.
BIANCA JAGGERI think for the U.S. government the Sandinistas represented a threat to their dominance of Latin America.
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I don’t want to wear what every other women wears. I won’t be dictated to.
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Those who suffer are not those at the top, but are the less privileged members of society.
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What is being said in media in other parts of the world is very different from what we’ve been told in this country throughout these years between September 11 and today.
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George W. Bush and Tony Blair had to convince the world that Saddam Hussein represented an imminent threat. Tony Blair lied when he claimed that Iraq could launch a chemical or biological attack within 45 minutes.
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A taboo, attached to it…now we have more women infected with HIV/AIDS, many of those women were infected by their husbands who did not tell them
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There is a question for which we will never know the answer: had the U.S. not launched the Contra war to overthrow the Sandinista government, would they have succeeded in bringing socioeconomic justice to the people of Nicaragua?
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I didn’t want to be discriminated against because of my gender and status. I promised myself I was never going to be treated as a second-class citizen.
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Saddam Hussein has been brutal against his people, but when he was committing those crimes, the international community did not come to the rescue of the Iraqis.
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The killing of innocent people is always wrong.
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The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.
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Today, we talk a lot about terrorism, but we rarely talk about state terrorism.
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People in the U.K. cannot understand whether Blair has lost his mind or whether his ambition to be the second-most-powerful man in the world made him lose his mind.
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I feel great identification with the developing world.
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The mere fact of an American being present could help save the lives of innocent people. That’s why I believe in the importance of bearing witness, to become a voice for the voiceless.
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Most governments in Latin America have failed to recognize the rights of indigenous people and their right to their own traditional territories.
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